... and my arms, after a lifetime of pushing paper, are aching from pushing wheelbarrows full of soil. It's time for a tipple of red while watching the comings and goings on the river.
Now that we've had our first day of spring and are into September, this is no longer an august blog as I ready myself to join in another great boating season.
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." - Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows.
Or for that matter, watching other people messing about in their boats.
